Wick v. Beck
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Superior Court of Cedar Rapids. — Hon. C. B. Robbins, Judge. Action by an attorney to recover for legal services rendered the defendant’s wife in an action for a divorce brought by tbe husband against the wife, in which the husband established the grounds alleged for a divorce to be true. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for the value of such services, defendant appeals.
1DissentDeemer, C. J.
(dissenting). — As the case was determined in the court below upon a demurrer to the petition, which admitted all facts well pleaded, we must accept the allegations of the petition as true. From these, it appears *138that plaintiff, an attorney at law, was employed in the first instance by defendant’s wife to bring an action against him (defendant) for a divorce; that defendant appeared to that action and filed an answer, and also a cross-petition, in which he sought a divorce from his wife, the plaintiff in the divorce suit. Pursuant to his original employment, and by the express direction of…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Porter v. BriggsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1874
- Doolittle v. DoolittleSupreme Court of Iowa · 1889
- Clyde v. PeavySupreme Court of Iowa · 1888
- Preston v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1884
- Sherwin v. MabenSupreme Court of Iowa · 1889
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